The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-24
II don't mean to say" said Kate demurely,

II don't mean to say" said Kate demurely,
that you're to give up the serape entirely;
you can wear it on rainy nights and when
you ride over here from your friends house
to spend the evening-for the sake of old
times" she added, with an unconscious air of
referring to an already antiquated friend
ship; "but you must admit it's a little too
gorgeous and theatrical for the sunlight of
day and the public highway"
"But willy should that make it wrong if the
experiences of people has shown it to be a
garment rest fitted for their wants and re-
quirements?" said Falkner argumentatively.
"But you are not one of those people," said
Kate, "and that makes all the difference
You look differently and act differently. so
that there is something irreconcilable between
your clothes and you that makes you look
odd"
"And to look odd, according to your civil
lied prejudices, is to be wrong" said Falkner
bitterly.
att is to seem different from what one
really IL which is wrong. Now, you are
mining superintendent, you tell me. Then
you don't want to look like Spanish brig
and, as y5u do in that serape. l am sure if
you had ridden up to a stage coach while 1
was In it I'd have handed you my watch
and purse without a word. There! you are
not offended?" she added, with a laugh,
which did not, however, conceal certain
earnestness. q suppose I ought to have said
would have given it gladly to such TO
mantle figure, and perhaps have got out and
danced a saraband or bolero with you-if
that is the thing to do nowadays. Welll" she
she said, after dangerous pause, consider
that I've said it."
He had been walking little before her,
with his face turned toward the distant
mountain. Suddenly he stopped and faced
her.
"You would have given enough of your
time to the highwayman, Miss Scott, as
would have enabled you to identify him for
the police-and no more. Like your brother,
you would have been willing to sacrifice
yourself for the benefit of the laws Of civiliza-
ton and good order"
If denial to this assertion could have been
expressed without the use of speech, it was
certainly transparent in the face and eyes of
the young girl at that moment If Falkner
had been less self-conscious he would have
seen it plainly. But Kate only buried her
face in her lifted muff. slightly raised her
pretty shoulders, and, dropping her tremulous
eyelids, walked on. at seems a pity" she
said after a pause, 'that we cannot preserve
our own miserable existence without taking
something from others-sometimes even o
hfel' lie started. "And it's horrid to have
to remind you that you have yet to kill some
thing for the invalid's supper" she continued.
81 saw hare in the field yonder"
"You mean that jackass rabbitg" he said
abstractedly.
"What you please. It's pity you didn't
take your gun instead of your rifle"
81 brought the rifle for protection"
"And shotgun is only aggressive, sup
pose?"
Falkner looked at her for moment, and
then, as the hare suddenly started across the
open hundred yards away, brought the rife
to his shoulder. A long interval-as it seemed
to Kate-elapsed; the animal appeared to be
already safely out of range, when the rife
suddenly cracked. the hare bo11nded in the